Border security - Page 996

May 6, 2021

Psaki blames 'nature of' media for being ‘big driver’ behind push to say there’s a border ‘crisis'

White House press secretary Jen Psaki blamed the 'nature of' media for being a 'big driver' behind the push to say there’s a border 'crisis.'

May 6, 2021

Arizona’s Sinema says ‘not enough being done’ by federal government at border

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat, had a meeting with the state’s National Guard on Wednesday and said that it is clear that the federal government is not doing enough to deal with the issue.

May 6, 2021

Biden admin’s photos of empty migrant facility are misleading, Texas Democrat says: ‘They’re just next door’

A Texas Democrat who has been critical of Biden administration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border lashed out this week, accusing the administration of posting misleading photos from a migrant processing facility.

May 5, 2021

ICE deportations fall to under 3,000 in April amid Biden rules that restrict removals

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported less than 3,000 illegal immigrants in April, the agency confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday -- a sign of how drastically the agency’s enforcement capabilities have been limited by the Biden administration.

May 5, 2021

Grassley accuses DHS of withholding information from the Judiciary Committee

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is accusing the Department of Homeland Security of withholding information at a classified briefing on the border crisis -- as Republicans seek more information about the severity of the situation at the border.

May 5, 2021

Border Patrol K-9 team finds 67 lbs of meth at immigration checkpoint

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from Southern California's El Centro Sector arrested a woman over the weekend who had been attempting to smuggling methamphetamine through an immigration checkpoint.

May 5, 2021

Facebook under fire for encouraging border crisis with ads for human smugglers, cartels: Rep. Kat Cammack

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., sent a scathing letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday for trying to "silence" conservative views on his platform while allowing human smugglers and cartels to "openly" operate on the social media site.

May 5, 2021

Sen. Bill Hagerty to visit Guatemala, Mexico in effort to help resolve migration crisis

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn, is visiting Guatemala and Mexico in a bid to help get to the bottom of how the U.S. can help stem the migrant crisis at the southern border -- a month before Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to make a similar trip.

May 5, 2021

Kamala Harris should have visited border, not Milwaukee, Sen. Johnson and other Wisconsin Republicans say

Kamala Harris was in Milwaukee on Tuesday but several Wisconsin Republicans said they wished the vice president had gone to the U.S.-Mexico border instead.

May 4, 2021

DHS releases images of empty Border Patrol facility as child migrants move to HHS shelters

The Biden administration on Tuesday released images showing how it has emptied out the once-packed Border Patrol facility in Donna, Texas -- which a few months ago had seen images emerge of migrants packed into "pods" amid the surging crisis at the border.